With 70% of Parents Stressed About Summer, a Family Bucket List Could Make the Difference Between a Vacation or a Nightmare
June 20 2019 - 11:55AM
Business Wire
- Fifty-six percent of parents said they’re ready for their
children to go back to school after just one week
- Parents said they’d rather run late for a meeting, stand in
line at the DMV, file their taxes, get yelled at by their boss or
talk to their in-laws on the phone for an hour than plan their kids
summer break
- Parents said creating a family bucket list of things to do with
your kids before they turn 18 is a great way to keep them cultured,
spend quality time together, explore mutual interests, limit screen
time and cure boredom
- Going on a road trip, learning how to ride a bike, taking a
camping trip, teaching kids to cook and visiting an amusement park
or water park topped family bucket lists
When it comes to dreaming up nightmare scenarios, running late
for a meeting, standing in line at the DMV, filing your income
taxes, getting yelled at by your boss or talking to your in-laws on
the phone for an hour come to mind. And all of these situations,
according to a new Groupon survey, parents would rather face than
trying to plan summer activities for their children.
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With 70% of parents stressed about
summer, a family bucket list could make the difference between a
vacation or a nightmare. (Graphic: Business Wire)
The poll of 2,000 parents found that 70 percent of parents admit
to being stressed about summer planning, and a sizeable chunk of
them, 40 percent, still have nothing planned at all. Furthermore,
nearly a quarter of parents said they have less sex with their
partners over the summer. Given these numbers, it should come as no
surprise that 56 percent of parents said they’re ready for their
children to go back to school after just one week!
The survey by market researchers OnePoll––and commissioned by
Groupon––uncovered why it’s just so hard for parents to keep their
children occupied over the summer months and what they can do to
get ahead of the curve.
Half of all parents surveyed said they struggle to keep their
children busy due to work responsibilities. Other challenges
identified by parents included having to juggle multiple schedules,
not being able to afford everything, running out of ideas after one
week and lacking a central place where parents can conveniently
find and buy things to do with their children.
How do parents beat the stress of summer? More than half of the
parents surveyed said they have a family bucket list of things they
want to do with their children before they turn 18. Going on a road
trip, learning how to ride a bike, taking a camping trip, teaching
kids to cook and visiting an amusement park or waterpark were the
top five activities on family bucket lists.
“There’s no question that summer disrupts the routine of just
about every family––making it totally normal for parents to feel
some stress and anxiety,” said Brian Fields, Groupon’s head of fun
things to do. “But we’ve found that if you have the right plan in
place, these months can be a great time for you to strengthen the
bond you have with your children. Coming up with a list of things
that you want to do with your kids before they turn 18 is a great
way to not only stay organized this summer, but it can provide a
roadmap for many years to come.”
Parents said having a family bucket list of things to do with
your kids before they turn 18 keeps them cultured, enables them to
spend quality time together as a family, creates an environment
where they can explore mutual interests, limits screen time and
cures boredom.
If you already have a family bucket list or need to get started
on one, Groupon has you covered with a number of memory-making,
boredom-curing summer activities that you can do with your children
this summer, including amusement and waterparks, zoos, trampoline
and bounce houses experiences, mini golf and bowling.
To view Groupon’s entire collection of fun summer things to do
for families, please visit here.
About Groupon
Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) is building the daily habit in local
commerce, offering a vast mobile and online marketplace where
people discover and save on amazing things to do, see, eat and buy.
By enabling real-time commerce across local businesses, travel
destinations, consumer products and live events, shoppers can find
the best a city has to offer.
Groupon is redefining how small businesses attract and retain
customers by providing them with customizable and scalable
marketing tools and services to profitably grow their
businesses.
To download Groupon's top-rated mobile apps, visit
www.groupon.com/mobile. To search for great deals or subscribe to
Groupon emails, visit www.groupon.com. To learn more about the
company’s merchant solutions and how to work with Groupon, visit
www.groupon.com/merchant.
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